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NewsAtlanta streetcar breaks ground
USA: Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood joined Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and local officials at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $94m Atlanta streetcar line on February 1. The 4∙2 km tram route with 12 stops will linking the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site with Centennial Olympic Park, ...
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NewsToulouse metro extension public consultation
FRANCE: Next month is due to see initial public consultation for a 5∙2 km extension of Toulouse metro Line B from Ramonville to Labège, adding five stations to serve growing industrial districts to the southeast of the city. Expected to cost around €370m excluding rolling stock, the ...
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NewsOrlando SunRail groundbreaking
USA: Construction of the SunRail commuter rail route through Orlando officially began on January 27 with a ceremony at the site of the Altamonte Springs station to mark the start of work on the $357∙2m Phase 1. Florida Transportation Secretary Anath Prasad was joined by Congressman John Mica, Congresswoman ...
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NewsAbu Dhabi metro funding approved
UAE: The first sections of Abu Dhabi’s extensive metro and light rail networks are expected to be operational within five years, after the Executive Council announced funding approval for the Department of Transport’s programme at the end of January. The emirate is planning to build a 131 km metro network ...
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NewsSingapore metro contracts awarded
SINGAPORE: Two contracts have been awarded to Thales for signalling enhancements across the island’s metro network, where ridership increased from 1∙78 million passengers/day in 2009 to over 2 million in 2010. On February 1 SMRT signed a €118m contract with Thales covering the installation of SelTrac CBTC on the North ...
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NewsCórdoba metro redesigned
ARGENTINA: Revised proposals for a metro network in the city of Córdoba have been submitted to the federal transport ministry for approval. Developed by China Railway International, the project envisages construction of three routes totalling 32∙9 km serving 26 stations. Expected to take seven years to build, the network would ...
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NewsBuenos Aires Line H extension groundbreaking
ARGENTINA: A groundbreaking ceremony attended by Buenos Aires Major Mauricio Macri on January 17 marked the start of work on two extensions of Line H totalling 4 km, which will add six more stations. The 5∙5 km orbital line is to be extended north from Corrientes to Plaza Francia, ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink prepares to put new trams into service
UK: London Tramlink is preparing to put the first of its six new Stadler Rail Variobahn trams into service by the end of February, with the rest scheduled to arrive at a rate of around one a month ready for the launch of a new Line 4 service in June. ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - February 2012
Mass Rapid Transit Authority has awarded CK Karnchane a 14bn baht contract for civil works on the 13 km elevated Bangkok Skytrain Green Line extension from Bearing to Samut Prakan which is scheduled to open in mid-2016. China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group has begun construction of a 37·4 km ...
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NewsWind Chaser urban maglev unveiled
CHINA: A prototype maglev trainset for medium-capacity urban transport applications has been unveiled by CSR Zhuzhou. The manufacturer envisages the 'Wind Chaser' design being used in cities of less than 2 million people, where a full metro might not be required. The company has confirmed that negotiations are underway with ...
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NewsBasel signs its ‘biggest tram order in 116 years’
SWITZERLAND: Preferred bidder Bombardier Transportation signed the contract to supply the city of Basel with 60 Flexity trams on January 31, in a deal described as Basel transport authority’s biggest order in its 116-year history. The €184m contract awarded by BVB will see the first two trams arrive in 2013 ...
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NewsAECOM wins Honolulu airport elevated metro design contract
USA: AECOM has won a $38∙8m contract to design the 8∙3 km section of the Honolulu Rail Transit elevated metro from Aloha Stadium to the Middle Street Transit Center, via Honolulu International Airport. AECOM is expected to finish the design work by the spring of 2013. There will be a ...
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NewsLonger platforms in Guadalajara
MEXICO: Work will begin this year on a programme to extend platforms on Line 1 of the Guadalajara light rail network from 60 m to 90 m, in order to accommodate three-car trains. According to Jalisco Governor Emilio González, studies for Line 3 to Zapopan, Tlaquepaque and ...
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NewsSingapore chooses Alstom for metro upgrades
SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority has awarded a €240m contract to Alstom covering the supply of 34 driverless Metropolis trainsets for the Circle and North East lines, as well as signalling upgrades for both routes.NEL will receive 18 six-car trainsets and another 16 three-car sets will be supplied to CCL. ...
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NewsManaus monorail contract signed
BRAZIL: The Infrastructure Secretariat of Amazonas signed a contract with a consortium of Scomi Engineering, CR Almedia, Mendes Junior and Serveng, on January 20 to build a 20 km straddle monorail in the city of Manaus. Total value of the contract is put at R$1∙45bn. Scomi Engineering’s share is worth ...
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NewsCAF named preferred bidder to supply new Midland Metro trams
UK: Having received bids submitted from 'all over the world, not just Europe', on February 2 West Midlands transport authority Centro named CAF as preferred bidder to supply new trams to replace the existing Midland Metro fleet and provide additional capacity on the 21 km light rail route linking Birmingham ...
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NewsSingapore offers loyalty prizes to encourage off-peak metro travel
SINGAPORE: 'Incentives for Singapore's Commuters' has been launched by Land Transport Authority as part of a programme to examine methods for spreading peak travel demand. Metro commuters participating in the Insinc study are awarded credits proportional to the distance they travel, with the credits entered into a lottery with cash ...
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NewsWeight challenge for Wuppertal monorail car designer
GERMANY: Swiss-based engineering group Prose is taking responsibility for all the mechanical aspects of a rolling stock project for the first time, in its role as Vossloh Kiepe's mechanical engineering partner for the development of a new fleet of cars for the schwebebahn suspension monorail in Wuppertal. Wuppertaler Stadtwerke awarded ...
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NewsThree-car trains to Woolwich Arsenal
UK: London’s Docklands Light Railway introduced three-car operation on its Bank – Woolwich Arsenal route with effect from January 30, adding capacity for an extra 1 500 passengers/h ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This means all DLR routes are now worked with three-car trains during the morning ...
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NewsDijon takes delivery of first new tram
FRANCE: The first of 33 Alstom Citadis trams for the two-line network being built in Dijon was delivered to the depot in the former SNCF workshop at Dijon-Chenôve on January 26, having left the Alstom's La Rochelle factory six days earlier. The 33 m long 100% low-floor trams will be ...